You contradict yourself. Parents do not pay for public schools; property owners do. Parents do not elect the administrators who hire the teachers; the general public does.

By Jove, you're right!

Ignore raymorris; listen to Donald Knuth: "Random numbers should not be generated with a method chosen at random."

See Knuth's "Algorithm K" for illustration. You can find it on this page.

Pretty sure JustAnotherOldGuy was being facetious. It's hard to imagine the kernel loading 12 webpages every time it needs a random number.

I'll believe it when I see it. Fusion power has been "only a billion years away" for over four billion years now.

Every article on the website is like that. Long winded navel gazing self congratulatory gibberish. Nicely written though. Good spelling, complete sentences, the whole nine yards. Clearly a bunch of professional writers and editors. I wonder who is paying them to produce all that nonsense?

Oh yeah, there's some Vogon poetry too.

If you liked this story, you might also enjoy the science fiction of Rudy Rucker. Heavy on psychedelics, math, and AI.

What.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Literally the first search result for "Taiwanese passport".

I am he who is X Y and Zee
I carry no card, my life is cheap
I have no worries, I do not fret
Some may have what I'm yet to get

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Nevergonnagiveyouup.mp3.exe

Election day in 2016 was November 10.

2020 was November 3.

Calculus is a formal language that can be used to describe and model physical phenomena like accelerating vehicles, but the physical phenomena themselves are not calculus.

Humans are so bad at math that it would be impractical to solve equations in real time. Estimating the future position of an accelerating object is more a matter of pattern matching than equation solving.

Petroleum is produced for the energy it provides. But only the light fractions can be burned. The heavier fractions are essentially waste material that we have found uses for, like plastic and other organic chemicals, and asphalt for paving roads.

It's like using logs to build houses and twigs for the fire.

Once we stop producing petroleum for energy we will have to find some other source for organic chemical feedstocks, or just learn to live without plastics, asphalt paving, etc.

"Cheap plastic" will soon be a thing of the past.